What is Custom Landscape Design?

Custom landscape design is the art and science of shaping outdoor spaces to respond directly to the site, the client, and the surrounding environment. At Farmscape, we create tailored landscapes that are not only beautiful—they’re productive, ecological, and built to thrive over time. Our licensed Landscape Architects and designers engage in a collaborative design process with you that begins with the first meeting. We start by visiting your space and studying sun angles, elevations, and the unique features of your property. From there we collaborate with you to design vibrant, sustainable landscapes that are uniquely yours.

It takes a designer’s eye and experience to elevate every unique property. While cheap design apps are appealing based on cost, they miss crucial site details and opportunities.

With custom landscape and design services by our very experienced local designers at Farmscape, you benefit from:

• Designs Rooted in Place: We live where we design (and maintain our own home gardens) so our team has a deep understanding of native plants and microclimates. That’s why our designs are so successful: They benefit from our years of local gardening  experience while reflecting your personal vision.
• Integrated Aesthetics + Stewardship: Farmscape edible landscape designs are gorgeous as well as productive, and our ornamental spaces support pollinators and wildlife, as well as soil and waterway health.
• Sustainable Infrastructure = Resource Savings: Farmscape designs can include regenerative strategies like drought-tolerant planting, organic soil building, and habitat restoration. These techniques can result in rebates from your local municipality and big water savings.

• Made for your Lifestyle:  From food production to native plant palettes to gathering spaces, we co-create a landscape that aligns with your needs and values. Whether you’re tending a garden, gathering with friends, or simply stepping outside for a breath of fresh air, a Farmscape design supports your well-being.
• Cultivates Long-Term Property Value: An ecologically resilient landscape enhances a property’s long-term worth. By integrating native plantings, regenerative practices, and smart water systems, the space becomes not only more beautiful—but more marketable and future-ready.
• Delivers Short-Term Savings: While landscape improvements can’t be deducted from your taxes, you can reap the benefits of rebates for eco-conscious improvements to your custom landscape.
• Supports Ecological Health:Organic landscape design contributes to a healthier environment. By improving soil vitality, encouraging biodiversity, conserving water, and supporting local ecosystems, our projects help land do what it was meant to do—thrive.

Farmscape’s custom design process ensures longevity, performance, and intentionality that AI and low-cost programs can’t match. Your designer stays on as project manager from design to installation, and meets with maintenance teams on site to ensure excellent service.

Farmscape offers full-service landscape design for clients who want to create something specific, meaningful, and ecologically sound.

Whether you’re developing a commercial campus, residential community, public green space, or a kid-friendly edible garden in your backyard, we bring a unique blend of agricultural insight, design expertise, and project execution.

Our custom landscaping design services include:

• Site Analysis
  We begin by assessing your goals, site conditions, and user needs to define the vision and scope of the landscape.
• Conceptual & Schematic Design
  Our team generates landscape concepts that incorporate ecological systems, productive planting, and spatial flow—always rooted in the character of the site.
• Design Development
  We refine the layout, select plant palettes, and create irrigation hydrozones to support sustainability, usability, and long-term maintenance.
• Construction Documentation
  From detailed CAD drawings to evocative renderings, we provide what you need to move from vision to construction.

We collaborate closely with project stakeholders, architects, and other trades to ensure the design aligns with your broader goals and remains buildable, scalable, and site-appropriate.

Farmscape has completed hundreds of custom landscaping projects across California. Each one reflects a homeowner’s unique vision, paired with our experience, adapted to a specific site.

Bright Raised Beds | Emerald Hills

Some clients play with bold colors like at this fun hillside retreat, where fire engine red raised beds stand out against the redwoods and blue stone.

Colorful Homestead | Lafayette, CA

Our design team transformed this deep canyon site with colorful native plants, a hillside orchard, and tasteful raised beds for the health-conscious family..

Rooftop Haven | Santa Monica Canyon

This custom designed green rooftop garden keeps the residence cool, and the site balances native habitat with elegant food-producing zones and outdoor gathering areas.

At Farmscape, custom landscape design isn’t a product—it’s a process. We bring decades of experience designing for all the diverse landscapes, microclimates and populations in California. Our approach is informed by both ecological principles and real-world function, resulting in resilient, low-maintenance, and high-impact landscapes.

Why clients choose us:

• Site-responsive design rooted in beauty, ecology and food systems
• Collaborative, client-centered process
• Deep expertise in both Landscape Architecture and regenerative agriculture
• End-to-end services—from design through installation and maintenance
• Trusted by leading institutions, developers, and communities
• Our farmers have collective decades of experience growing organic produce in California

We don’t just design for now—we design for decades. Let’s build something lasting together!